OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Revisiting groundwater law through the lenses of earth system law and rights of nature	123
Identifying anthropogenic legacy in freshwater ecosystems	117
The lead and copper rule: Limitations and lessons learned from Newark, New Jersey	74
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Waters From the Third Pole	63
Reanimating the strangled rivers of Aotearoa New Zealand	62
A new flow path: eDNA connecting hydrology and biology	62
Hydrological modeling of the Silala River basin. 1. Model development and long‐term groundwater recharge assessment	59
Multispecies assemblages and multiple stressors: Synthesizing the state of experimental research in freshwaters	55
Beaver: The North American freshwater climate action plan	45
The geological evolution of the Silala River basin, Central Andes	45
The effects of drought on biodiversity in UK river ecosystems: Drying rivers in a wet country	41
Interdisciplinary Approaches Improve Understanding of Cryptogenic Species: A Historical Case Study of Crayfish in Montana, USA	40
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Water‐IQ matters as water conflicts mount	39
Issue Information	38
Beaver Versus Human: The Big Differences in Small Dams	37
Water insecurity in the Global North: A review of experiences in U.S. colonias communities along the Mexico border	36
Enhancing river floodplain management with nature‐based solutions: Overcoming barriers and harnessing enablers	35
Scientific evidence of the hydrological impacts of nature‐based solutions at the catchment scale	35
Mitigating floods and attenuating surface runoff with temporary storage areas in headwaters	35
Setting a pluralist agenda for water governance: Why power and scale matter	34
Environmental injustice and Escherichia coli in urban streams: Potential for community‐led response	34
A Review of Social and Organizational Barriers to Water Reuse in the United States	31

Resilient riverine social–ecological systems: A new paradigm to meet global conservation targets	30
Advancing Multiple‐Use Water Services for Development in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries	29
Food web perspectives and methods for riverine fish conservation	28
Water scarcity in the fast‐growing megacity of Lagos, Nigeria and opportunities for managed aquifer recharge	28
Macrophytes as passive bioindicators of trace element pollution in the aquatic environment	28
MAD water: Integrating modular, adaptive, and decentralized approaches for water security in the climate change era	28
Geophysics as a hypothesis‐testing tool for critical zone hydrogeology	27
The waterscape continuum concept: Rethinking boundaries in ecosystems	26
A call for an accurate presentation of glaciers as water resources	26
Mapping the landscape of water and society research: Promising combinations of compatible and complementary disciplines	25
The Future of Water and Democracy: Assessing and Improving Water Governance in the United States	25
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The development of a hydrogeological conceptual model of groundwater and surface water flows in the Silala River Basin	24
Theoretical Underpinnings of Snow Interception and Canopy Snow Ablation Parameterisations	24
Potential pollution risks of historic landfills in England: Further analysis of climate change impacts	24
Hydropolitics intertwined with geopolitics in the Brahmaputra River Basin	23
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Data availability and sector‐specific frameworks restrict drought impact quantification in the Intermountain West	22
A Review on the Coupled Hydrological and Hydrodynamic Modeling for Watershed Floods	21
An overview of the evolving jurisdictional scope of the U.S. Clean Water Act for hydrologists	20
A review of atmospheric water vapor lidar calibration methods	20
Issue Information	20
Toward a contextualized research agenda: Governance challenges of the wastewater treatment policy in Mexico and the role of subnational governments	19
Wastewater surveillance could serve as a pandemic early warning system for COVID‐19 and beyond	19
Delivering global water security: Embedding water justice as a response to increased irrigation efficiency	19
Beyond landscape experience: A systematic literature review on the concept of spatial quality in flood‐risk management	18
A Call for a Unified Database to Address Exposure Disparities in the United States	17
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Bridging the divide between inland water quantity and quality with satellite remote sensing: An interdisciplinary review	17
Toward a common methodological framework for the sampling, extraction, and isotopic analysis of water in the Critical Zone to study vegetation water use	17
Multi‐scalar interactions between mismanaged plastic waste and urban flooding in an era of climate change and rapid urbanization	17
Water Reuse for Cape Town: Investing in Resilience to Avoid Another “Day Zero”	17
Erratum	17
Hydrochemical and isotopic evaluation of groundwater and river water in the transboundary Silala River watershed	17
Cover Image, Volume 9, Issue 2	16
Women in limnology: From a historical perspective to a present‐day evaluation	16
Are sponge cities the solution to China's growing urban flooding problems?	16
Issue Information	16
Why do we have so many different hydrological models? A review based on the case of Switzerland	16
Land Use‐Land Cover and Hydrological Modeling: A Review	15
Review on model development techniques for dam break flood wave propagation	15
An interdisciplinary overview of levee setback benefits: Supporting spatial planning and implementation of riverine nature‐based solutions	15
Water insecurity and gender‐based violence: A global review of the evidence	14
Parameter estimation and uncertainty analysis in hydrological modeling	14
Progress toward resilient and sustainable water management in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta	14
Natural Flood Risk Management in Tropical Southeast Asia: Prospects in the Biodiverse Archipelagic Nation of the Philippines	14
Uncertainties as a Guide for Global Water Model Advancement	14
Using water walks as a research method to gather data in water‐related social research	14
Exploring drought‐to‐flood interactions and dynamics: A global case review	14

Ecosystem Services in Drying River Networks: A Meta‐Ecosystem Conceptual Model	13
Critical review of household water treatment in Southeast Asian countries	13
Forecasting lake‐/sea‐effect snowstorms, advancement, and challenges	13
Saltwater Intrusion Vulnerability of Soil and Groundwater Near Estuaries	13
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Advances in quantifying microbial contamination in potable water: Potential of fluorescence‐based sensor technology	12
Sustainability impacts of sediments on the estuary, ports, and fishing communities of Cartagena Bay, Colombian Caribbean	12
Identifying and Approaching Barriers to Environmental Flow Implementation Using Social–Ecological Systems Thinking	12
Climate and hydrological seasonal effects on household water insecurity: A systematic review	12
The Needs, Challenges, and Priorities for Advancing Global Flood Research	12
Gender identities, water insecurity, and risk: Re‐theorizing the connections for a gender‐inclusive toolkit for water insecurity research	12
How should water affordability be measured in the United States? A critical review	12
Issue Information	12
Streambed migration frequency drives ecology and biogeochemistry across spatial scales	12
A conceptual framework for gender and climate mainstreaming to mitigate water inaccessibility in ruralsub‐SaharanAfrica	12
Recent advancements of landslide hydrology	12
Reframing Natural in Flood Management	11
Climate stress testing for water systems: Review and guide for applications	11
Anishinaabek responsibilities and relationships are demonstrated in N'bi (Water) Declarations	11
Issue Information	11
Proactive river corridor definition: Recommendations for a process‐based width optimization approach illustrated in the context of the coastal Pacific Northwest	11
The geomorphological and ecological functioning of the Silala River	11
Warding off freshwater salinization: Do current criteria measure up?	11
Remote Sensing for Monitoring Macroplastics in Rivers: A Review	11
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Guiding Aquatic Reptile (Chelonian and Crocodylian) Conservation in the Face of Growing Light Pollution: Lessons From Experience	10
Linking emerging contaminants to production and consumption practices	10
Reimagining hydropower in the United States	10
A Practitioner‐Informed Decision Tree for Selecting Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom Control and Mitigation Techniques	10
Disparate Groundwater Responses to Wildfire	10
A review of video‐based rainfall measurement methods	10
Issue Information	10
Beyond engagement: Enhancing equity in collaborative water governance	10
How resilient are waterways of the Asian Himalayas? Finding adaptive measures for future sustainability	10
Interacting effects of climate change and invasions by alien plant species on the morphodynamics of temperate rivers	10
Changes to water management and declining pastoral resilience in Marsabit County, northern Kenya: The example of Gabra wells	9
The role of water in environmental migration	9
Catchment concentration–discharge relationships across temporal scales: A review	9
A Review of Processes and Models for the Export of Microplastics From Terrestrial to Aquatic Systems	9
A primer on stream temperature processes	9
Issue Information	9
Review of water scarcity assessments: Highlights of Mexico's water situation	9
Advances and gaps in the science and practice of impact‐based forecasting of droughts	9
Introduction to the Silala River and its hydrology	9
The effects of household water insecurity on child health and well‐being	9
State‐of‐the‐art review of leak diagnostic experiments: Toward a smart water network	9
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Social practice theory and household water demand: A review of literature and research evidence	8
Amphibitic stoneflies (Plecoptera) are integrators of ecosystem processes in alluvial aquifers of gravel‐bed river floodplains	8
Dry landscapes and parched economies: A review of how drought impacts nonagricultural socioeconomic sectors in the US Intermountain West	8
The role of rewilding in mitigating hydrological extremes: State of the evidence	8
Issue Information	8
Making a vicious cycle virtuous: A research and policy agenda for advancing the water security of unregulated users in the Southwestern U.S.	7
Understanding synergies and tradeoffs between forests, water, and climate change	7
Transport of persistent organic pollutants: Another effect of microplastic pollution?	7
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Water throughout the green energy transition: Hydrosocial dimensions of coal, natural gas, and lithium	7
Artificial DNA in hydrology	7
Hydrosocial Territories Research: An Overview	7
Opportunities and challenges for precipitation forcing data in post‐wildfire hydrologic modeling applications	6
Economic and Legal Pluralistic Approaches to Water Rights: Perspectives From Agricultural Drainage and Irrigation Systems in the United States and India	6
Interactions between sediment processes and ecosystem responses in the Green Bay of Lake Michigan	6
Reviving Europe's rivers: Seven challenges in the implementation of the Nature Restoration Law to restore free‐flowing rivers	6
Closing pit lakes as aquatic ecosystems: Risk, reality, and future uses	5
Water on the mind: Mapping behavioral and psychological research on water security	5
Rewilding and the water cycle	5
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Extreme precipitation events	5
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Participatory approaches in water research: A review	5